Chapter 7260 A Race of Warriors
Chapter 7260 A Race of Warriors
The Earth Barbarians were all prostrating towards him, and Long Chen could feel the determination in their hearts. This sincerity shocked him.
“Tell me what happened to you,” said Long Chen.
The elder immediately got up, but maintained a servile attitude as he explained the Earth Barbarian race’s history.
Earth Barbarians were originally one of the outsider devils’ greatest warrior races. They charged into battle fearlessly, and were considered elites by all standards. However, they were also very proud, and would certainly not fight an unjust war.
According to their ancestors, they had been tricked into coming to the nine heavens; they had been told that this war concerned the survival of their race and their entire world. Yet as it turned out, they were simply invaders, nothing else. They discovered this after coming to the nine heavens, and immediately chose to leave the outsider army. As a consequence, they were labeled as traitors and hunted down.
Even as they were being hunted, Earth Barbarians refused to submit and return to the outsider devil army. As a result, they were hunted down by both sides. The outsider devils viewed them as traitors, while the nine heavens naturally viewed them as a mortal foe.
They barely survived by hiding in the harshest of environments. Against the outsider devils, they could at least fight back, but when they faced the people of the nine heavens, they didn’t want to make their sins worse, and so they could only flee.
Later on, Earth Barbarians managed to get into contact with another race who wanted to join the side of the nine heavens. They agreed that even if they all die fighting, they would do so with no regrets; anything would be better than continuing to fight on the wrong side.
However, before they could all meet up, the final battle erupted. The nine heavens and ten lands were shattered; everything and everyone was thrown into chaos. The Earth Barbarians lost touch with the others.
In the end, they hid inside a crack in space for many years. When the endless night finally passed and the new era descended, they once more stepped foot into the nine heavens, only to discover that they were in a territory occupied by outsider devils.
As it turned out, the outsider devils still hated them as traitors. Even though the Earth Barbarians had disguised themselves as best as they could, they were still discovered.
Fortunately, Earth Barbarians were born with innate gifts. Their bodies were extremely tough, and their essence blood was like a precious medicine. It could boost the strength of the physical body, and it also had restorative properties. As a result of this, the moment they were discovered and news spread, a powerful tribe set their sights on them, viewing them as a fat piece of meat.
This tribe thought that their powerful lineup would be sufficient to make the Earth Barbarians submit, but the Earth Barbarians would rather die fighting. They were just about to clash when Long Chen suddenly popped up right between them.
His tenth-Heavenstage Sovereign Lord aura erupted, and it was not just the result of the breakthrough itself, but also the result of his aura being suppressed right after the breakthrough. Basically, Long Chen had put a lid on a boiling pot and then sat on the lid. He had originally thought that he could contain it, and the moment he found that he couldn’t, he immediately placed the strongest seal he could on it and fled for fear of damaging the first academy.
In the end, the overwhelming energy of the breakthrough had been amplified so much during that brief moment that the resulting explosion had exterminated the tribe of outsider devils, leaving only a few elders alive.
“Wait a moment. What was that other race you were talking to?”
“The original devil race!”
Long Chen’s heart shook when he heard that. So just like the original devil race, the Earth Barbarians wanted to join the nine heavens. However, they had bad luck and were unable to switch sides before the final battle erupted.
“Great hero, the original devil race can be considered our closest allies. May I ask... are they doing well?” The elder had noticed Long Chen’s reaction and immediately realized that he knew about this matter already.
“Hm... I don’t think you can say they’re doing well. After the primal chaos war, the outsider devils viewed them as traitors, while the people of the nine heavens still viewed them as mortal enemies. Fortunately, they managed to survive through all that. But perhaps only they know just how many hardships they’ve been through...” Long Chen truly felt pain when he thought about the original devil race.
The Star Master had bestowed upon them the Devil Suppressing Divine Seal. They had fought fearlessly in the primal chaos war and made huge sacrifices. But afterwards, their contributions were erased and all their comrades turned their blades against them. The truth was buried under the river of history. No one would believe their words...
Of course, now, even the Star Master was being slandered as the cause of that great tribulation. If people couldn’t even believe in their very own Star Master, how could they possibly believe the original devil race?
Long Chen used to feel burning outrage whenever this topic came up, but he had entirely given up on trying to explain things. In the end, it was a complete waste of time. Those who trusted him didn’t need an explanation, and those who didn’t wouldn’t trust him no matter what he said. His time and energy were limited, so how could he waste them on a pack of fools?
“You can all get up. I accept your loyalty!” said Long Chen.
The Earth Barbarians were overjoyed by this. Some of them almost wept.
What shocked Long Chen was that the moment he said this, he could clearly feel the curse shackles binding them slowly fade away.
“Master, from now on, the entire Earth Barbarian race is your most loyal servant! We will walk through fire for you without hesitation!” The elder once more kowtowed, his voice shaking.
Long Chen lifted him up and solemnly said, “I don’t like being called master, and you are not my servants. You are comrades worthy of my trust.”
Hearing that Long Chen trusted them already, the elder was incredibly excited. He had no idea that the reason Long Chen was so quick to accept them was the original devil race. In any case, he felt a kind of relief he had never experienced in his entire life—indeed, as if he had just been freed of a generational curse. His people clearly felt the same; they were all brimming with energy now.
“My lord, let me introduce myself. I am A’Fu, and I am the leader here. I’m ashamed to say that after so many years, I was unable to revive the Earth Barbarian race...”
The elder was ashamed. In the past, the Earth Barbarians had been powerful warriors, but then they had cursed themselves and rapidly declined.
There were two methods of undoing this curse. One was to obtain the recognition of someone blessed by the karmic luck of the nine heavens. The reason he had begged Long Chen to accept them was because he felt that Long Chen was definitely one such person. To be able to destroy a powerful tribe with just his aura alone, how could he not be blessed by this world’s karmic luck?
The other method was to kill an enormous number of outsider devils. By doing that, they would be making up for their sins. But the Earth Barbarian race had been in hiding for all these years, and their power had long since fallen from their peak. They were afraid of outsider devils discovering their location, so how could they possibly dare to hunt them down? If they were exposed, they could very well be wiped out.
“So you’re saying that you cultivate by fighting, basically?”
As A’Fu told him more about the Earth Barbarian race, Long Chen was rather taken aback. Earth Barbarians relied on combat in order to awaken their bloodlines and souls, and in combat, they relied on the power of the earth. As they fought, they would absorb the power of the earth to break through their bottlenecks. They were truly a warrior race, born for battle. Sadly, years of hiding had caused their power to wane.
What Long Chen found truly mysterious was that they could absorb the power of the earth here. The energy of the nine heavens did not reject them!
“In that case, let’s start a little slaughter. Let me see how strong Earth Barbarians are!”
Long Chen felt a hint of anticipation for them now.